The city’s body cam pilot program launched in the Shakespeare district in 2015. Then expanded to six more districts last year.

The budget passed by city council included $2.8 million to expand to seven more districts, but another $2.8 million, from money that was not needed for the property tax rebate program, is now being used to complete a citywide roll-out one year ahead of schedule.

“The policy is the officer will turn on the camera,” Cmdr. Buslik said. “They are being held accountable for doing so.”

But the officer who shot and killed Paul O’Neal last August, after a wild car chase and then foot chase, did not have his camera on.

“The officer had just recently received the camera as they had in that district,” Cmdr. Buslik said.

Like any other piece of technology, it is a question of getting used to it.

Fraternal order of Police President Dean Angelo said that officer was new to the camera, and though he’d turned it on, but turned it off by mistake.

Dean Angelo told CBS 2 he is also protesting because the FOP was not notified about the body cam expansion before the announcement, as they should have been.

The city may also be aiming to get ahead of the ongoing federal investigation into Chicago’s police. The Justice Department has recommended body cams as the result of similar investigations in other cities.